Politics & Government

Five Things: Smooth Jazz & a Hot Pepper Festival

Prep yourself for a great autumn week in today's Five Things.

  1. Go with your heart at a that meets tonight at 7 pm at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital at Rahway in Conference Room No. 3. Registration is required. Call 732-499-6073 for more information.
  2. Go 'Viral' at a Rutgers tonight. Islamophobia and anti-Semitism experts Kenneth Stern and Jack G. Shaheen will lecture on 'Going Viral: Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia and the Role of the Media' tonight at 7:30 pm. The free event will be held at Trayes Hall in the Douglass College Campus Center of Rutgers. For more info, call 732-932-2033.
  3. Groove to some smooth jazz tonight at Rutgers in New Brunswick. The Mason Gross School presents at 8 pm at the Nicholas Music Center. For more info, call 732-932-7511. The concert is free.
  4. Get registered for The Fantastic Fall Hot Pepper Harvest, to take place on Friday, Oct. 21 at the EARTH Center at Davidson’s Mill Pond Park from 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm.  The aims to introduce attendees to the love of hot peppers and will feature some great recipes. Registration is required, and the workshop cost is $20. For more info, call 732-398-5262.
  5. Visit an art exhibition at Middlesex County College. "Disillusions: Gendered Visions of the Caribbean and its Diasporas,” continues at the college's Studio Theatre Gallery through Nov. 8. The is open weekdays from 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.  For more info, email artgallery@middlesexcc.edu or call 732-906-2589.

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